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Release Date
Nov 4, 1988 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 25, 1998
Budget $4,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Country USA
Studio Alive Enterprises, Universal
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Other Titles
• They Live
• John Carpenter's They Live (1988)
• They Live! (1988)
• Sie leben! (1990)
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Aliens, Satire, Suspense, Campy
Tagline: Who are they? And what do they want?
Plot: John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a quiet loner, a drifter who gets work where ever he can find it. While working on a construction site in L.A. and sleeping in a vagrant community at night, John stumbles upon a secret society of alien beings who pose as wealthy and powerful people in human society. John joins a rebel group commited to exposing this conspiricy, and becomes their reluctant leader and the only hope of the human race. Former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is outstanding as the unassuming hero, playing the role with understated shock at what he uncovers and stubborn courage when he confronts it. Director John Carpenter laces the film with his trademark blend of humor and horror, making aliens that are hideously arrogant, greedy, and easy to hate, while the humans are confused and desperate in their struggle against them. The world looks a little different at the end of THEY LIVE, and one will never look at billboards, money, or sunglasses the same way again. The film contains the longest, and perhaps most realistic, fist fight in film history. Paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the film was based on the short story EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING by Ray
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 This was for a long time the last film that actually felt like a Carpenter movie. It has a pretty decent score, composed by him, and the kind of sci-fi horror tension we've enjoyed from movies like "Escape From New York." ... Recommended.-- (eSplatter.com)
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John Carpenter
Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Fog |
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John Carpenter
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween, Halloween |
| Alan Howarth
Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, Halloween II |
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